The beauty care, laundry and homecare giant Henkel has hired former Kraft Foods and Yoplait executive Pierre Saliou as the president of Schwarzkopf Professional France, LSA-Conso.fr reports.
Saliou’s career began in the Nestlé subsidiary Herta. He moved to Kraft Foods in 1993, and then to Yoplait in 2001.
In 2005, he formed the French division of Swiss dairy multinational Emmi, and acted as its managing director until 2010, when he joined Henkel in the capacity of its commercial director of beauty products (large-scale distribution) for France. In 2013 he became the director general of the company's Tunisian arm.
Saliou began in his role with Schwarzkopf, which is controlled by Henkel, this month.
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